Ruby Contract Job Trends in the North West

Ruby
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Ruby skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 112 113
Rank change year-on-year -18 +1 -15
Contract jobs citing Ruby 10 8 28
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.41% 0.35% 1.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.62% 1.62% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 21
10th Percentile £365 £322 £513
25th Percentile £373 £324 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £369 £582
Median % change year-on-year +1.76% -36.68% +24.49%
75th Percentile £376 £461 £598
90th Percentile £457 £630 £713
England median daily rate £545 £600 £582
% change year-on-year -9.17% +3.09% -3.00%

All Programming Languages
North West

Ruby falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 617 494 740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 25.45% 21.37% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 304 558
10th Percentile £312 £326 £325
25th Percentile £358 £386 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -2.20%
75th Percentile £519 £538 £575
90th Percentile £612 £600 £663
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 44
10th Percentile £37.16 £37.55 £45.88
25th Percentile £59.82 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £49.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.55% +6.11% +22.17%
75th Percentile - £68.13 £50.56
90th Percentile £83.30 £93.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -3.08% +4.84% -0.80%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ruby relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Ruby job vacancy trend in the North West

Ruby
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Ruby.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Ruby

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby in the North West over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in the North West

Ruby
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Ruby.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Ruby

Ruby
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the North West region over the 6 months to 18 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheshire -12 9 £375 -28.20%
Manchester -7 1 £625 +92.90% 4
Ruby
England

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon MSK
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (20.00%) Serverless
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Git
2 9 (90.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (70.00%) Gradle
3 7 (70.00%) Xcode
4 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
4 2 (20.00%) GitLab
4 2 (20.00%) JIRA
4 2 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (90.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 6 (60.00%) iOS Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Android Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Ruby Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Ruby Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) CSS
1 7 (70.00%) HTML
2 2 (20.00%) Node.js
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Mobile App
1 7 (70.00%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Android
1 7 (70.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) BDD
2 7 (70.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 7 (70.00%) Front End Development
2 7 (70.00%) Mobile Development
2 7 (70.00%) Roadmaps
2 7 (70.00%) Scrum
2 7 (70.00%) TDD
2 7 (70.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 7 (70.00%) Unit Testing
2 7 (70.00%) User Experience
2 7 (70.00%) UX Design
3 6 (60.00%) iOS Development
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (10.00%) Android Development
5 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (10.00%) Software Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 9 (90.00%) Java
3 7 (70.00%) C
3 7 (70.00%) C++
3 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (70.00%) Kotlin
3 7 (70.00%) Objective-C
3 7 (70.00%) Scala
3 7 (70.00%) Swift
4 2 (20.00%) Perl
4 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle